From Tokyo Airport to Hotel - A Dad's Diary by Clayton Frech - August 21st, 2021

This blog post originated from Clayton’s Frech’s personal Facebook page. He is chronicling his journey as a dad with his son that is headed to Tokyo.

(For somewhat more live updates, you can follow me on instagram. I am trying to drop updates into my stories. and of course follow @teamezra05 on instagram as well.

So we arrive at Tokyo’s Narita Airport around 3pm local time, maybe a little after that. We wait for quite some time to get off the plane. We are immediately moved into the “quarantine” process. There were rumors that this could take a long time. We had been warned to be prepared for a long wait, many lines, many “opportunities” to show our credentials… and to play the waiting game. Man, did that ever happen. I can’t even remember how many times we were queued up to have our papers inspected. Easily 10 times. At one moment, like 3 different Japanese women came by and checked my credential. Made me quite nervous.

Airport Covid check

It seems the bulk of the process is designed to 1) make sure you have all the right pre-flight tests and paperwork completed and 2) to get you a new covid test. We were moved from line to line to line. It was unclear why we needed so many intermediary steps, unless this was a way of controlling flow for times that things were super busy so you had a variety of holding areas for the flight cohorts?

Any how, the staff at the airport during the whole covid process were friendly, kind, and helpful. No complaints there. Finally, at one point we had to do a saliva test (our first). We had a little stall to spit into a test tube, and handed it over to the Haz-Mat worker. Then we went into a lounge area that was pretty comfortable. We had assigned seat numbers and most of us didn’t realize we could move around until hour 3 or so. It was quite comfortable. But no food was available. Ezra and I started to get hungry at one point and I was glad I had trail mix and bars ready. They were passing out waters which was great.

The Inconclusive Test Extends Our Quarantine

So after maybe 2 hours of not hearing anything from anyone, they announce it will be another 45 minutes. This sucks but we can live with it. Then, not even five minutes later we are told that it is going to be 2 hours MORE! OMG, we all started to lose it…. So we hunker down again. The rumor was that there was a positive test from our plane. But they let a couple groups of people go – including team usa’s sitting volleyball athletes and some Columbian athletes. Then we hear we have an inconclusive test in our cohort. So at least there’s a story here.

Trust Your Gut

At one point in the quarantine period, the staff came to me and said my test was negative and that I could go to the next station. She seemed really excited and happy to tell me that. However, I didn’t want separate from Ezra and LaTi. I was handling all of Ezra's paperwork and we were essentially going through the process together. I told her that I wanted to stay and she sort of tried to convince me to leave the room and go to the next stop. Almost like, we want to get the negative test people out of here. To my knowledge they didn’t do this to anybody else. I had to make a decision and told her I was going to stay back with Ezra. When I look back, we were maybe 1.5-2.0 hours into the 4.0 hour quarantine! I would have been stuck at the next stop, in a way less comfortable area, without Ezra, had I taken their advice.

Finally we get out of testing after just about 4 hours. Wow! Then we proceed to the last phase where we went through immigration, get our bags, and pass through customs.

We had not put name tags on our checked bags… I was freaking out that we would not be able to find the bags. Luckily, USOPC grabbed all the bags and had our information from United so they knew exactly whose bag was whose… I guess if you don’t put a name tag on a bag, it’s good to do it at the Paralympics.

Once I realized Team USA’s staff was fully in control and the last thing for Ezra to do was to climb onto the team bus, LaTi and I decided to head out to our hotel.

The Most Patient Taxi Driver in the World is Japanese

After arriving a little after 3pm we found our taxi driver, who, incidentally had been waiting since about 5:30pm for us to arrive! How incredible is that? He waited 3.5 hours for us! I felt like there was nothing to see for a long time on the drive to the hotel. Like the airport was in the middle of nowhere. I just googled and yes, that airport is really far out of town. We eventually find our way into the city and it is really stunning at night. It’s about 9:30pm, a little more than six hours since we arrived at the airport when we take off for our hotel.

Hotel Arrival

We arrive at our hotel around 10:30pm and immediately run into problems. It’s my credit card. My primary card is not working in Japan. Chase bank has put a fraud alert on my card. I immediately called the bank and got somebody on the phone. She tried multiple times to unlock the credit freeze to no avail. They keep charging and trying but it’s not working. Ultimately, she says she has to elevate me to the next level. I waited ALMOST AN HOUR to get the next person on the phone.

In the meantime, I am starting to get delirious. It’s pushing close to midnight and we just need to get to our rooms. So I offer to pay cash for the first night and solve the credit card problem in the morning. When they calculate the total bill, it is some huge number of Yen. I asked for the rate in USD and she calculates it to be $184.00 per night. Great. I take $400 and exchange it in their exchange machine, hand it over, and assume we are good.

Not so fast. With the exchange fee and exchange rates (you know the rates are not the same anywhere), I had lost enough money that I was now SHORT and couldn’t cover the bill. It was a small amount, but they were unwilling to give me the room for a slight discount. And then, funny enough, the exchange machine magically runs out of money and is out of order! So I can't even give them more money. They won't take US Dollars.

I am losing my mind at this point. Finally, magically, somebody finally shows up on the chase bank line that I have been on for almost an hour. A new lady tells me to try the card, and it works. It’s now basically midnight and we are getting our room keys!

Travel Hours Summary

4:30am PST Wake UP – 4 Hours of prep, travel, check-in

8:30am PST LAX to SFO – 4.5 Hours of flight and layover

1:00pm PST SFO to Tokyo Flight Leaves – 10.5 Hours of flight time

3:00-9:30pm JST Airport – 6.5 Hours of quarantine / customs time

9:30-12:00am JST Travel and Hotel – 2.5 Hours of travel and check in time

28 Hours of Travel Time

Interesting observations about Japan

• They take covid very seriously. The airport covid teams looked like Haz-Mat workers.

• The toilets have instructions that are incomprehensible to me. Some of them must have artificial intelligence flushing technology… I just look for the handle!

• Hotel rooms have virtually no storage. I have to use my 2nd bed for my gear. It forces you to be more organized, which is a good thing.

From Home to the Tokyo Airport - A Dad's Diary by Clayton Frech - August 20th, 2021

This blog post originated from Clayton’s Frech’s personal Facebook page. He is chronicling his journey as a dad with his son that is headed to Tokyo.

A Brutal Wake-up

After going to bed around 230am, my alarm jumped me out of bed at 430. It was one of those – ‘NO WAY it’s time to get up’ mornings… Head was pounding. I could barely see or stand straight. I snoozed for 15 minutes and then rallied. The sleep deprivation headache would not subside all day. We wanted to get to the airport by 6am for an 8:20am flight, so we now had to hustle… I scrambled around to finish all the packing, close the bags, and load the car. Ezra said goodbye to our labradoodle Yazzie, who we got before his big surgery when he was 2 years old. She’s 15 years old now and having her see him off felt like a bookend of sorts to the largest moments in Ezra’s life so far.

Ryan our videographer met us at the house and filmed the car ride. After a quick stop at my mother in law’s house to say goodbye to my 12 year old Gabe and for a traditional Persian goodbye, we were on the road. It was pretty surreal to be on the road to the airport after five years of planning and preparation and training…

LAX Drama

We parked so Bahar and Ryan could follow us through the entire ticketing process to the security line. I was able to get my ticket pretty quickly, but I had not gone through the United App to get Ezra pre-checked-in, and that was a problem. We had to scramble to get his information uploaded so we could get the right QR code to let him board the plane. That extra hour we planned was chewed up very quickly. There are so few staffers left at airports and the technology is so confusing (especially in our case), that it really creates stress for travelers.

Finally, we got Ezra sorted out and heading up to the United Terminal. Bahar got tearful as we headed into the security line. We couldn’t see her but she said she stayed there the entire time until she saw us go up the escalator to the gates. Our gate was the same gate, or possible one off, from where Bahar and I first met and started talking back in the Spring of 1999. We had been checking each other out from afar and I sort of made a move on the plane, walking by and saying “hi” but didn’t have the courage to stop and talk. But when the plane landed I waited for her. So being in the United Terminal always brings back memories for me. Ezra, now 16, has heard this story at few times but he seemed a little more engaged with it than in the past. Maybe he’s growing up?

SFO Flight

An uneventful flight to SFO. We landed and had a nice two terminal walk. Saw Josh George on the way to our gate. At the gate were our friends Isaac Jean-Paul, Wesley Williams, Lex Gillette, and Toby Fawehinmi. As we waited more team USA athletes arrived including a bunch of sitting volleyball athletes, including my friend Katie Holloway and Lora Webster (both of whom have an angel city connection), as well as some of the wheelchair racing athletes such as Raymond Martin. Our flight was basically entirely booked by Team USA. There was a contingent of athletes from Columbia, but otherwise the plane was full of athletes and staff. Really cool.

Tokyo Flight

We ended up not upgrading because the agent said there was tons of room. She spaced us out so we all had our own 3 seats to sleep. Ezra and I slept for about the first 4 hours of the flight. It's a 10.5 hour flight, so not that bad... Our sleep schedule was the equivalentof sleeping from 5am-9am Tokyo time.

I woke up at one point in a panic, realizing that I didn’t put ANY name tags on our checked bags. And all the athletes and staff use the same Team USA luggage. If the luggage tag got lost, we were massively screwed… Oh well…

So we stayed up the rest of the flight to start our transition to Tokyo time more formally. We watched movies and I chatted up Josh George, a 5x Paralympian and BBQ restaurant owner who will retire after these games. Really great guy.

There was an extra dose of paperwork to be filled out before we landed, all covid-related. I was pretty anxious, not sure what to expect when we landed. Would I have all the right paperwork? Would it take 2-3 hours, or 8-10 hours to get through the airport? What was the transportation system? I was under the impression I had to call a taxi. But I didn’t really know. You will have to wait for the next post to know what happened...

Mask All Day All Night

So to put something out there, we had our N95 masks on the ENTIRE trip except when we were eating or drinking. SO that’s from 8:20am PST until we got to our hotel room that night. Our journey door to door was about 28 hours long, virtually the entire time wearing our mask. We wore the masks while we were sleeping. It was miserable, to say the least.

A Dad's Diary by Clayton Frech - August 19th, 2021

This blog post originated from Clayton’s Frech’s personal Facebook page. He is chronicling his journey as a dad with his son that is headed to Tokyo.

A Busy Day

So today was our final day before leaving for tokyo. I had a zillion things to do and kept grinding from 730am on. Set-up the ATT calling plan, spoke to a journalist, picked up SD cards for the GoPro, did the bills, reviewed documents for the angel city team, found another donor for our warehouse concept (yeah!), and did multiple run throughs of all the checklists. I was driving myself crazy second guessing everything.

Ezra and team getting prepped for practice.

A Powerful Sendoff

So a little background on Ezra’s school. When he was born, Bahar and I were on a mission to learn from other amputees. We met with families of amputee children and also some young adult amputees. After a dozen or so of these interview, we realized something. The kids growing up in small towns had more confidence and were farther along their self acceptance journey that those from the big city. Strange right? Our theory was that, by surrounding a child with a community that knows and excepts him/her for who they are you give the child some breathing room. They don’t have to deal with having everyone point and stare at them… they don’t have to worry about meeting new people every time they step out the front door.

Thus, we only really looked at K-12 schools. We wanted a school where he could be a normal kid. A school where we trusted the administration would listen to us, collaborate, and help create an inclusive learning environment.

Ezra has been at the same school, Brentwood, his whole life. He trains there. He played every sport possible there. More importantly, he found community, friends. And teacher / mentors. It’s his home base.

And for his final workout today, the school wanted to surprise him. They got all the teachers and staff to come out (and some athletes and parents that happened to be around) and cheer for him when he showed up for his final practice. They were all masked and socially distant, and it was awesome!! It was a total surprise - he had no clue!!

Then his coach, Chiropractor, mom, and his elementary school PE coach stayed for his final session at Brentwood. It turned out to be a very emotional night, appreciating Brentwood, the track and the team behind him. I was bummed I missed it due to kid transportation duties, as it sounded really beautiful. Deep in his heart he truly understands the support (and sacrifice) his team has given him, propelling him to new heights… And he expressed himself to the crew that was there with him. Of course, nobody even had a charged cell phone to properly document the moment. Oh well!

Finally, he got home, had another great meal, and the started doing final packing and checking the checklists!!

We both ended up going to bed around 2am… We set my alarm for 4:30am, with a goal to be at the airport by 6am… just in case… man, would that be prescient!

A Dad's Diary by Clayton Frech - August 18th, 2021

This blog post originated from Clayton’s Frech’s personal Facebook page. He is chronicling his journey as a dad with his son that is headed to Tokyo.

Yesterday it was raining in in LA. It never rains in LA. Like never. So strange. I feel like it's good luck.

Again, I had a full and productive day before Team Ezra saw any daylight! I actually had a fun day visiting facilities and venues for Angel City Sports.

People gathered around for USA celebration.

I ran quickly into the office to get Angel City swag for Ezra, LaTi and I to give away while in Japan. Then took my brilliant and business-savvy 12 year-old son Gabe with me to check out a warehouse sub-lease we are thinking about taking on for Angel City.

The concept would be to create an Adaptive Sports and Recreation Center in this warehouse. A place where we could do sports, loan equipment out, repair equipment, and generally expose people to the incredible world of adaptive sports on an on-going basis. One of our major challenges to building out adaptive sports programming in Southern California has been facilities. We have the equipment and we can find the coaches (I have a number of expert coaches on my staff and dozens of willing coaches). But this would be a HUB for the broader community…. Super cool if we can pull it off. (To pull this off, we will need new donors and sponsors FYI - please DM me with ideas!)

Then scoped out a couple additional facilities for future programming. We have been building partnerships with the community since 2013 with the intention of being able to scale up programming. We are getting very close to this…. If anybody tells you non-profit work is easy, they are wrong, or highly likely to be wrong. But I promise you that persistence in building and investing in relationships will eventually pay.

Ezra woke up late afternoon in time for a massage and then we had a really fun, socially distant, drive-by with a small group of friends and family. There were signed, flags, and balloons! Neighbors drove back and forth honking. It was really sweet. I only had one donut - Ezra resisted.

Table full of USA-themed treats.

We grabbed another wonderful dinner from my mother-in-law and then headed home to do a final “fake packing” (real packing to happen today)…. I am definitely gaining weight with the stress of the trip, lack of surfing, and eating like a king with Bahar and my mother-in-law’s cooking! Ezra’s bags are pretty much packed and look great – he actually fits in one checked bag. Advise has been to pack lightly as he will get a TON more clothing once in Japan. I still have some work to do… 

Final Flight Preparations

Then we sat down to make sure our covid tests, activity plan, and all the applications are set for us to get through the travel side of things on Friday. With our negative tests from the day before, we had to load lots of personal and travel information into an app that will ensure we are following all of the covid protocols while in Japan. We are going to be tested every day while in Japan, starting at the Tokyo Airport. We have to report whether we feel any symptoms. We are part of a contact tracing program. We are all under very strict rules to ensure the safety of the Games. While I cringe at paperwork like this, I have to say this was an extremely thorough process they put together. And with the Delta variant, it seems fully appropriate. Imagine the athlete village with delta spreading like wildfire. If it caught on early it could easy destroy athletes’ ability to compete. SO this is really a good thing, broad strokes. It’s just been a stressor, sort of the daunting task looming over us. But we got through it.

Tomorrow (Thursday 8/19) is our final prep/packing/errands day! Let’s do this!

Clayton

A Dad's Diary by Clayton Frech - August 17th, 2021

This blog post originated from Clayton’s Frech’s personal Facebook page. He is chronicling his journey as a dad with his son that is headed to Tokyo.

I am Burning the Candle at Both Ends

So when Ezra decided to shift his sleep schedule to be closer to Tokyo time, I thought it was a great idea. A few days after that, I realized it may cause me challenges, but I kept it to myself. And man, today was a great example of this. I got up at 7am like clockwork. Worked all day to knock out my “to do” list of Tokyo prep, angel city sports projects, and home projects. There’s nothing worse than leaving on a big trip and having loose ends all over the place.

But Ezra doesn’t wake up until I get him up. And he doesn’t need to be up until like 3pm or so most days. We arent getting to the track until 5pm or even 6pm most days. Meaning dinner and everything for me pushes back.

Table filled with Covid Tests.

And then I end up helping him prepare until super late, like midnight, 1am, 2am. So my sleep schedule is getting killed… So I am waking up with a sleep hangover-style headache every day now…

So I got Ezra up and we immediately got ready to head to his school to do some filming with our documentary film crew from Angel City. Today was a big day – sitting Ezra down to actually document how he’s feeling ahead of Tokyo. We have hundreds of hours of training… but not that much of him talking to the camera. (if is interested in helping us on this passion project following four Paralympians to the Games and in their pursuit of impact, please reach out. We need some executive producers, editor, and some videographers potentially to help capture some of the on-the-ground stuff while the athletes are in Tokyo).

Final Full Track Workout Before We Leave

Then we hit the track. LaTi wasn’t feeling great so we did the long jump session and sent her videos. I grabbed the rake and my primary duty was to rake the sand, and I still spaced out on a couple of jumps. When you don’t rake the sand before a jump, it makes it incredibly hard to figure out where you landed because the sand is all disrupted. Just one of those funny nuances. The people that rake the sand, make it nice and smooth and level, should get paid a lot!  He did a short approach, meaning not full speed, and jumped pretty well with a lot of room to improve his landings… This will need some work in Tokyo once we get on the training track.

Then Ezra went over and did a final weight room workout that was mostly jumping and strengthening work. And we finished the evening with some high jump approaches for good measure. Approaches are when he runs through the motions but doesn’t actually do a full plant and jump, and there’s no bar. So it’s pretty mellow on your body. Also in the middle of his workout he spoke to his USOPC Coach, Chris Mack, who is in Tokyo with the team already, about his sleep schedule during the flight over and got some great insight. We also recorded some content for our prosthetic sponsor, Ottobock, sharing his behind the scenes in preparation for Tokyo...

Fake Packing

When we got home, we ate dinner and then started “fake packing” as I called it. We just tried to fit everything… He’s got a ton of prosthetic gear, recovery stuff, team usa clothing… There was very little room for his regular clothing. We are trying to fit him into one checked bag and possible just one carry-on. We are close. We will know more tomorrow when we finalize the packing…

2nd Pre-Tokyo Covid Test

Then we took our second covid test. This time, in theory, was more important… but a little less stressful. We set the test up with a timer and kept packing. We came back after 30 minutes and we… drum roll… tested negative again! Yeahooo!

We finished the packing and strategizing re: what we needed about 1am and then I shifted to getting ready for bed, while Ezra had his “dinner”…

A heck of a good day…

A Dad's Diary by Clayton Frech - August 16th, 2021

This blog post originated from Clayton’s Frech’s personal Facebook page. He is chronicling his journey as a dad with his son that is headed to Tokyo.

Ezra slept in until I woke him at 3:30pm… He didn’t fall asleep until 5am after we finished some packing at around 2am. I fell right asleep, and, unfortunate for me, got up at 6:30am like I normally do. I was feeling pretty tired all day, but it has been a fairly productive day of cranking on various tasks to get ready for Tokyo.

Covid Stress and Family Separation Before Travelling

We have had quite a stressful summer navigating the pandemic and trying to avoid getting covid, especially as delta variant started raging. Imagine staging a huge event like this in a pandemic. Then add a rapidly spreading variant and the need to keep the athletes and staff negative. Crazy challenge.

Thus, after a period of quarantining and masking in our home due to potential exposures, we made the difficult decision to separate our immediate family a week before we fly.

This has left a unique stress level on Ezra and I where we don’t have the normal family environment full of love and support in person. We are seeing each other with drive bys and masks on. So weird. Almost like we are in a hotel in our own home. But without housekeeping.

My two younger sons moved over to their grandmother’s house last weekend and my wife Bahar moved there yesterday. We made this decision so they could start to socialize with friends and attend school, where we know there are significant risks. We are hearing stories of so many people with covid right now. Kids. Adults. Vaccinated. The delta variant doesn’t care who you are or who you know...

So we have been stressing for days about taking the pre-tokyo covid tests. It will be a true blessing if we test negative after all the scares and challenges of navigating the pandemic this summer. A positive test means we likely don't make it to Tokyo.

This leaves Ezra and I alone at the house to pack and prepare. But it’s definitely a surreal, strange existence to not be close to my kids and my wife the last few days before we leave.

First Test Today

After this summer of stress, today Ezra and I have to take our first of two PRE-tokyo covid tests…. But first, he got some work done by our amazing chiropractor, Amit, and then we sat down in our living room to do the tests.

We need to test negative in order to go to Tokyo. People must think we are off our rocker’s as we have been masking and social distancing for the entire summer, avoiding parties, avoiding people…. We have had to become hermits…

I know I will feel the weight of the world off of my shoulders with a negative test….

So we pull out the instructions… Cameras are rolling. Bahar comes by to share in the moment. The process is pretty complicated and we don’t want to mess it up. We read it over and over again. We start the process. I have never jammed anything up my nose that far. I was crying, seriously crying.

And then put the swab in the mixture and we waited. And we waited. 30 long minutes.

Then a little green light popped. Test done. NEGATIVE! We celebrated for a little bit. One step down… Beyond relieved…

Final Prosthetic Prep

After we test, we went to the track for some training but also to do a final prosthetic check. We have been visiting Hanger Clinic almost weekly for the last few months, leading up to Dessert Challenge Games, US Paralympic Trials, and Tokyo.

You can’t imagine how much energy and time has gone into getting the leg as dialed in a possible. Do you have the right components? Do you have them all set at the right settings? When you move the tiniest thing, it sets off a chain reaction and the leg performs completely different.

So today we are meeting our prosthetist on the track to walk through EVERYTHING we are packing. We have extra knees, an extra blade, rings, straps, and liners. It’s an insane amount of gear, but thanks to his sponsors Hanger Clinic and Ottobock, we are in really good shape.

This is one thing that sets the Paralympics apart and makes it more nuanced and interesting to me is that many athletes have a technology component that they MUST master to become elite. Regardless of their physical abilities, they must be smart when figuring out how to integrate the tech, whether a leg, brace, chair, or whatever.

Ezra then had a very productive high jump session and we filmed a few tiktok videos and called it a night.

So tomorrow (8/17), we do an interview on the track, train in long jump, and then do our second covid test in the evening. Fingers crossed!

Oh yeah, and we should probably finish packing!

Clayton

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A Dad's Diary by Clayton Frech - August 15th, 2021

Photo of Ezra Frech

Hello friends and family,

Today I decided to document the road to Tokyo for everyone… I will try (?) to publish daily updates from now through Tokyo. I am a writer in my core. It’s how I think. How I express. So I write.

For those who don’t know, in late June my 16-year-old son, Ezra made the US Paralympic Track and Field Team that is heading to Tokyo. In fact, he’s the youngest member of the TF team this year.

We leave this Friday at 6 am, less than five days away… I am blessed to go as Ezra’s chaperone because he’s still a minor.

Yesterday, I spent a huge amount of time trying to understand all of the rules, apps, and requirements for entry into Japan. This is incredibly complex… honestly, it was stressing me out… a lot. We get emails from many sources, multiple per week… sometimes per day. So it’s really hard to stay current…

And tonight I still have a couple of hours of reading to be up on the Tokyo 2020 Playbook among other items.

Yesterday we Ordered some extra cell chargers, Japan plug converters, and thermometers… Amazon is pretty amazing to deliver in less than 24 hours… Ezra got a sports massage and said he felt super limber…

Ezra is sleeping at 3/4 am, and not waking up until 3/4 pm it’s a crazy schedule. Bahar and I leave a second dinner for him before we go to bed.

A couple of weeks ago he phased out his two-a-day workouts… still doing four to five days a week on the track. And after a rest day today, tomorrow we are back on the track. Actually a working session with our prosthetist Thomas from Hanger Clinic.

So that’s the update today!

Clayton

This post was pulled from Angel City Sport’s founder, Clayton Frech’s personal Facebook account.

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